Judicious Quotes

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I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious. — Diablo Cody
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they… — Carl Sagan
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… — Thomas Carlyle
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. — Euripides
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Millard Fillmore
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. — William Shenstone
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use… — Mark Twain
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I… — Charles Lamb
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… — Samuel Johnson
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. — Northrop Frye
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires… — B.K.S. Iyengar
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the… — Rossiter Johnson
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chestâ€¦ Submit it to the criticism of the judicious. — James Webb Young
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right… — Pierre Charron

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